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Charles Long, retired CIA Operations Officer reviews The DGSE: A Concise History of France’s Foreign Intelligence Service by Damien Van Puyvelde on the WIN Short-Form Reviews page.
Interview conducted 2 July 2026 with Nicholas Reynolds PhD discussing his book Ortiz’s War: The Allies' Secret Weapon Against the Nazis in France, co-authored with Katie Sanders.
Interview conducted by Paul Hollingsworth PhD, former Senior CIA Officer and Analyst, President of AFIO on 28 May 2026 with Stephan Talty, NY Times bestselling author, discussing his newest book: The American School of Spies: The Archaeologists Who Fought the Nazis and Saved the Treasures of Ancient Greece.
Interview conducted 3 June 2026 with Jeffrey Rogg PhD, Senior Fellow at the National Security Institute at the University of Florida, discussing The Spy & the State - The History of American Intelligence, a novel and comprehensive narrative of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present day. Watch the video on the AFIO Now Videos & Podcasts page.
Paul Kepp, former CIA Assistant Director for South and Central Asia and current Adjunct Professor at the Institute of World Politics reviews Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries by Daniela Richterova and Christopher M. Andrew available on the WIN Short-Form Book Reviews page.
[Based on the book's title, I assumed it would provide a scholarly historical overview of the CIA's activities in recent years and its vital role and mission in protecting the United States' national security. This assumption was incorrect. After reading the book, I believe it is biased and partisan, as is evident from the beginning in the Prologue and throughout the publication to the Epilogue. ...]
Associate Professor and former Naval Intelligence Officer Dr. Daniel J. Benny reviews The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner, available on the WIN Short Form Book Reviews page.
CIA Operations Officer and AFIO Member Charles Jones reviews Tradecraft Tactics and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, available on the WIN Short Form Book Reviews page.
The open-source intelligence (OSINT) discipline celebrates 85 years this month. In February 1941 the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (FBMS) was formally established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The OSINT discipline expanded beyond FBMS' broadcast intercepts to include print media exploitation when the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications (IDC) of the Library of Congress was established in December 1941.
Applications for the 2026 Academic Year AFIO Scholarships are now being accepted until 1 June 2026. To be considered, you must indicate whether you are applying for an undergraduate or graduate scholarship. For more information and how to apply, visit our Scholarships page.